Walter Foster

"Kids will learn how to bring their favorite licensed characters to life with these step-by-step learn-to-draw books. Each book offers easy-to-follow instructions to guide kids from simple sketches to colorful character renderings"--

Art Studio: Horses & Ponies makes the art of drawing and painting this evergreen art subject accessible and easy for everyone. Including more than 50 step-by-step projects of a wide range of horses and ponies, beginning artists will learn the basics of working with graphite and colored pencil; acrylic, oil, and watercolor; pastel; and pen and ink. By experimenting with these different tools and techniques, artists will build their artistic skill...

50 Wacky Things Humans Do describes 50 weird, wild, and unbelievable things the human body is able to do. Science has never been so much fun! Did you know that when you sneeze it rockets out at over one-hundred miles per hour? How about that the average person sheds about five hundred million skin cells every day? What about the fact that most of the cells in your body are not even human?! 50 Wacky Things Humans Do gives you the dirt on 50...

"Mayday! Mayday! We're in trouble up here!" came a desparete voice from space. One million two hundred thousand miles from Earth the Martian Three rocket to Mars began to break up and fall apart. No one knows why one of the finest rockets ever built began to shake and fall apart, only that a Martian landing is out of the question. Suddenly, the only thought is to devise a plan to get the three brave men safely back to Earth!

A crew of five astronauts is sent to Mars, the Red Planet, to discover the whereabouts of an alleged area where diamonds are believed to be hidden. It is not an easy task. While on their search they are side tracked by loud 'cheeeeeeeee' sounds and oversized footprints as they come in direct contact with the planet's inhabitants: a giant scorpion, giant ant, and giant serpent who seem to be, of all thiungs: guarding...

A 106 year old Black man tells a young reporter a strange tale about how he, as a young Navy diver in the Atlantic, came across a sunken city, lost for generations. And how he was taken on a tour of it by one of it's remaining inhabitants. . .

Frank Bonner is an escaped con on the run from the law. In Baltimore, Maryland he boards a bus to avoid being captured. He ends up in a small town called 'Homerville' a little town he had never heard of. During a brief layover he meets and becomes friendly with a little old man at a local coffee shop. The little old man offers him $500 in cash if he can stay overnight - alone - in a local house that he himself owned on the edge of town.DESPERATE...

'This inspiring instructional book combines projects from some of our most popular How to Draw and Paint and Artist's Library series titles into one handy volume. The Art of Acrylic Painting is a comprehensive collection that features the work of many accomplished artists, so you will be exposed to a variety of styles and learn a number of ways to approach this versatile medium. This beautiful, full-color reference book delves into essential information...

Comprehensive and user-friendly, this volume combines four vintage instructional manuals by Walter T. Foster, the world-famous art teacher and publisher. In addition to explaining the principles of figure drawing, it provides a handy retrospective of fashions for men, women, and children from the first half of the twentieth century. This authentic guide to vintage styles features a splendid range of apparel, from ladies' lingerie and evening gowns...

This compilation of projects from some of our most popular How to Draw and Paint and Artist's Library series titles provides inspiration and instruction on every aspect of oil painting. From the fundamentals to advanced techniques, The Art of Oil Painting is filled with information that artists of all skill levels will find useful. The contributing artists are all acclaimed for their particular styles and approaches to oil painting, so there are countless...